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After walking at the Pace University undergraduate commencement on May 23rd, 2007, Pace University adminstration officials have decided to withhold Lauren Giaccone’s and John Cronan’s degrees pending the resolution of criminal and disciplinary charges stemming from their arrests at a protest in November 2006.
John and Lauren were made aware of this via email yesterday […]

Demond Mullins of IVAW’s New York City Chapter
(Photo: Thomas Good / Next Left Notes)
New York, NY - May 27, 2007. One day before the City observed the Memorial Day holiday, New York’s Union Square South was the site of an action called “Operation First Casualty” by organizers. Members of several […]

Members of Lancaster IWW Protest Outside Starbucks (Photo: Starbucks Workers Union)
Lancaster, PA ­ - May 23, 2007. On May 17th, the Lancaster branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Lancaster Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protested for over three hours at the Columbia Avenue store […]

Rebuilding the Left: A Strategy [Summary]

The following is a summary of an article I’m working on, which proposes a framework for thinking about the strategic tasks confronting radical activists who want to work toward rebuilding the broad Left (of which the radical left is one component). One of my assumptions is that a […]

SDS Lancaster (Photo: Hawa Lassanah )
Lancaster, PA - May 19, 2007. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area known for its traditional values and conservative politics, was home to an Anti-War Shindig on Saturday, May 19th. The event, which was held on Armed Forces Day, was hosted by the Lancaster Students for a Democratic […]

Witness Against Torture in Times Square (Photo: Thomas Good)
New York, NY - May 19, 2007. New York City’s Times Square military recruiting center - the busiest in the nation - was the site of a Witness Against Torture (WAT) street theatre action Saturday, May 19th.
The vigil featured a street theatre performance […]

This morning we shut down the port of Oakland. The ships that had supplies bound for Iraq sat idle.
At 6:30 am group of various antiwar activists, teachers, and union members went to the SSA Terminal at the port of Oakland. Lucky for me, it was only a 10 minute bike ride from my house. I […]

After feeling victorious from shutting down the port this morning, someone in our affinity group got a call that a group of racists were harassing the Woodfin Workers picket.

Woodfin is a hotel in Emoryville, about 15 minutes from my house. Last Christmas, several immigrant workers were unjustly fired without notice in retaliation for organizing to […]

The second SDS National Convention will take place July 27-31 at Wayne State University in Detroit.
For more information you can visit the National Convention entry on the SDS wiki here: http://newsds.org/wiki/index.php?title=National_Convention

Original post by SDS and reposted by Radical Blogs

Chapel Hill, NC - May 16, 2007. On Friday, February 16th 2007, six students visited Congressman David Price’s home office as part of a coordinated national effort to pressure Congress to cut off funding for the illegal war on Iraq. 30 minutes after their arrival, the first of the David Price Six was arrested. The […]